The move is expected to save families more than $5,000 a year as women no longer have to rely on chauffeurs or drivers, said Faisal Ghweinem, a Saudi investor, in an interview with the Okaz local daily newspaper.

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The first chauffeurs were people employed to stoke a steam engine and keep it running. The literal meaning of the French noun chauffeur (from the verb chauffer, meaning "to heat") is "one that heats." In the early days of automobiles, French speakers extended the word to those who drove the "horseless carriage," and it eventually developed an extended sense specifically for someone hired to drive other people. It was this latter sense that was borrowed into English in the late 19th century. Incidentally, the French word chauffeur derives from the same Anglo-French word that gave English speakers the verb chafe, and ultimately can be traced back to the Latin verb calēre ("to be warm").

Origin and Etymology of chauffeur

French, literally, stoker, from chauffer to heat, from Old French chaufer — more at chafe

Members will be chauffeured in a concierge car directly from the tarmac next door or, say, from Faena Hotel Miami Beach, to the secure exclusivity of the Concours Club, an invitation to join the club states.

But pitchers, like all of us, are creatures of habit, and contemporary baseball players did not grow up or develop as Major Leaguers in the habit of getting chauffeured onto the field for relief outings.

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